I have a question for you. I’ll answer yours if you’ll answer mine. You give it short shrift, you can expect the same.
RINOs pretend to be conservative and coopt a conservative site like Free Republic. As far as I can tell, not one of them has responded to my contention that this isn’t a GOP website, it’s a conservative website so they have no business telling us to vote for a RINO.
The GOP turned its back on conservatism when it didn’t uphold Thompson or Hunter. Putting this kind of RINO garbage on Free REpublic deserves a zot.
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Time for the FALCONservatives to assert themselves.
Death of the GOP and the Birth of a New Political Party
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961828/posts
The time may soon come where many of us say, like Ronald Reagan’s famous quote regarding the Democrat party, “I didn’t leave the Republican party, the Republican party left me.”
So, here’s my question: Why do you expect Freepers to toe the Republican line when it isn’t a republican website?
Come next year, either a Republican or a Democrat will be the President. One party has 0% conservative values. The other has varying degrees of conservative values, depending which candidate, most have at least 50%. Which do you prefer?
“Why do you expect Freepers to toe the Republican line when it isn’t a republican website?”
It has nothing to do with being a Republican. I never said it did. And it has nothing to do with toeing that party line either. What I’m talking about specifically is the war on terror and which candidate would be the better choice to lead it. I don’t think that Clinton or Obama would be the kind of hawk that we need with active wars on two fronts and possibly another looming with Iran. I’m not suggesting that people vote for McCain because he has the R after his name. I’m asking if it’s worth sacrificing control of the war to make a point about immigration or McCain/Feingold, as people like Malkin and Bruce have suggested.
Does that answer your question? I’m not asking that in sarcasm. I just want to make sure that you understand where I’m coming from.